by MCDC | Apr 2, 2013 | Action Alerts, News, Virginia Election 2013
Dear Friend, Voter ID requirements are changing again. And, once again, Republicans are making Virginia national news for all the wrong reasons. The refrain of last night’s Rachel Maddow Show from Republicans is “Let’s make it harder.”...
by MCDC | Mar 27, 2013 | Issues, News
via Defense Should Give it a Rest. In day two of the Supreme Court hearings on issues related to the legalities surrounding gay marriage and partnerships, the focus was on the Defense of Marriage Act. Several of the justices raised concerns about DOMA. Justice Kagan...
by MCDC | Mar 23, 2013 | News
Congressman boasts on Twitter about the money he got to support CISPA, then thinks better of it Cory Doctorow at 11:39 am Sat, Mar 23 CISPA is a bill before Congress that will radically increase the ease with which the government and police can spy on people without...
by MCDC | Mar 22, 2013 | News
Friend — Mitch McConnell just showed us the Republican Party’s true colors. He actually told a crowd that Hillary Clinton looks like she’s from “a rerun of the ‘Golden Girls.'” It’s unclear why McConnell and his fellow...
by MCDC | Mar 21, 2013 | Environment, Fracking, Issues, News
Mary Ann Sumner is Town Supervisor for the Town of Dryden (population 14,500) in upstate New York. She loves Dryden, and she takes her job very seriously. That’s why she is in New York State Supreme Court today, fighting a lawsuit brought against her and Dryden...
by MCDC | Mar 21, 2013 | News
What’s it like inside a factory farm? If the livestock and meat industries have their way, what little view we have inside the walls of these animal-reviewing facilities may soon be obscured. For the second year in a row, the industry is backing bills in various...
